Butter Cookies (Melt-in-mouth Goodies)

These butter cookies are best for party or as presents. Each bit of the buttery cookies will literally melt in your mouth.

Do share these butter cookies with your family or friends. Yes, they are like melting moments.

Each bit of the buttery cookies will literally melt in your mouth. It’s hard to stop eating after the first bite.

I only make these cookies to bring along for our large social gatherings. Sharing is loving. Each person can only have one or two pieces. Not surprisingly, the whole tray was gone within minutes though.

Combine the plain flour, corn flour, custard powder and baking powder and sift through a sieve. Set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the butter and icing sugar until fluffy and pale. Mix in the vanilla extract.

Sift in the flour mixture. Beat at low speed with an electric mixer. Remember to scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula. Lightly knead into a dough. Wrap with a plastic film and roll into a tube in 3½cm thickness. Wrap it up and refrigerate for about 15 to 20 minutes, or until it’s workable.

Preheat oven to 180C / 356F. Line two baking trays with baking paper.

Remove the dough from refrigerator. Slice into 1½cm-thick portions. Place each portion in single layer on the lined trays, each at least 3cm apart. Use a lightly greased fork to gently press the small dough. Bake in preheated oven, for about 15 minutes, or until lightly brown. Remove from oven and let them sit for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack until completely cool down.

Notes:

If you don’t have two baking trays or your oven is not big enough, you can bake in two batches. Keep the rest of the dough in refrigerator.

If the weather is too warm, you find the dough is too greasy. Don’t worry. Just chill the dough for awhile until workable.

I love simple cookies with a rustic look. You might like to use a cookies cutter or any moulds to make some delicate patterns on your cookies.

Hello Christine. A search for a steamed bun recipe brought me to your blog and I have been stuck here for the past hour or so reading and saving numerous recipes that I would be trying out in the very near future. Egg tarts, butter cookies, pineapple roll tarts and banana chiffon cake are already lined up for the next few week-ends.

I surely love that your recipes are already in weight because I have been baking using weight for the past couple of years and actually find it difficult and impractical to measure by volume.

I am so happy to find your great site and have a lot of catching up to do because I want to try so many of your recipes!

These were lovely! They weren't coming together very well so I added an egg and it turned out beautifully! I have baked 2 plates full for the election cake stall at our school tomorrow. I put hundreds and thousands on top and called them fairy bikkies. Thanks for the recipe!

Hi Christine,Should I use cake flour or bread flour to substitute the plain flour? I am from Malaysia and this is the only 2 flour I know when making bread and cake. Have not make any cookie yet. Pls advise. Thank you

hi Christine, may I know why after I chilled the dough and cut it into pieces, it is always cracking? is this because chill for too long? I tried to leave at room temperature for a while and cut it, it became greasy. my cookies become no good shape.

Well i was googling for some easy butter cookies and i found this thread and yes i am not disappointed at all, i tried and i am still standing next to the oven and let me say that the smell is awesome.. the method itself is even easier than the cookie mix..

No worries. When you bake the first tray of cookies, you can keep the rest of the dough in fridge. When the first batch is almost done, you can remove the dough from the fridge and get them ready to pop in the oven.

Hi Christine! I really like to try this recipe but I couldn't find custard powder here in my place, what can I substitute instead? Does egg yolk works in place of custard powder in this recipe? And how many yolk should I used? Please, I wanna here your answer! Thanks!